Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping

Q3. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.

Q4. A customer is not happy with a project deliverable. What is your BEST course of action?

1. Tell the customer the deliverable meets the scope of work and get the customer’s agreement to proceed.
2. Determine why the customer is unhappy with the deliverable.
3. Meet with the team to determine changes needed.
4. Meet with the customer and offer a substitute project deliverable.

Q5. A construction project requires that government environmental hearings be held prior to site preparation. What kind of dependency is this?

1. Optional dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. Soft logic
4. External dependency

Q6. Five of the seven phases on the project contain work that is substantially similar. What MUST the project manager do?

1. See what can be done to make sure the work is carefully reworded to remove the similarity
2. Make sure the same resource completes all the similar work packages.
3. Plan in continuous improvement activities
4. Make sure the first and last of these work packages is scheduled close in time to each other

Q7. You are in the process of dividing work into smaller components so you can get a structured vision of what has to be delivered. What process is this?

1. Create WBS
2. Create RBS
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Progressive elaboration

Q8. Which of the following is the primary output of the Develop Project Team process?

1. Change requests
2. Staffing management plan
3. Team performance assessment
4. Updated issue log

Q9. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
3. Check the local parking laws.
4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

Q10. You have been given a big project to complete. This is an important project for your company, therefore management does not want any delay in completion. As soon as the project charter is signed, you start identifying and categorizing stakeholders using various data representation tools. Which of the following tools will you not use here?

1. Brain writing
2. Stakeholder cube
3. Direction of influence
4. Salience model